From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 15:25:41 MDT
In a message dated 6/1/2001 3:43:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de writes:
<< Now then there's the hidden, but very real cost of focusing on an
old technology, instead of developing a set of new technologies.
Like non-Carnot processes, fuel reformers, microturbines,
high-efficiency water electrolysis, photovoltaics, industrial
processes in space so we can eventually establish an industrial
base on the Moon, and start putting serious photovoltaics capacity
in Earth orbit, and similiar. >>
Shades of Jerry Pournelle! My only problem is when t will the
aforementioned "non-Carnot processes, fuel reformers,mcroturbines,
high-effiency water electrolysis, and photovoltaics," ever make it BIG in the
national marketplace? I get reports all the time from news releases on AOL,
on such topics.
These seem technically practical, but never make it out of the woods. That's
the technological equivalent of cock-teasing ;-) Always, promises, promises.
I personally get so annoyed to the point of getting livid. I also see that as
part of the reason, I look to life-extension as a second, compared to physics
and computationalism, regarding extropy. A billion years till something
really teriffic happens, I can believe, "but glory around the corner, " I
become cynical about.
The same goes with new energy technology, vapor-ware belongs in the computing
industry, not the energy industry.
Mitch
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